SEPARATING APPARATUS, SEPARATING/TAKING-OUT APPARATUS, PROCESSING APPARATUS, SEPARATING METHOD, AND SEPARATING/TAKING-OUT METHOD FOR SHEET MATERIALS

摘要

A sheet material separating apparatus includes a sheet material separating unit. This unit includes a low frictional guide sheet making a surface contact with an upper surface of an uppermost one in stacked sheet materials, and a vibrator contacting a surface of the guide sheet opposite to another surface of the guide sheet contacting the upper surface of the uppermost sheet material. A length from a part of the surface of the guide sheet on which the vibrator contacts to any position on a peripheral edge of the surface is longer than one wavelength of an excited sound wave.